The feeding of marine predators is a popular means by which tourists and tour operators can
facilitate close observation and interaction with wildlife. Shark-feeding has become the most …

The whale shark Rhincodon typus is a popular focal species in the marine tourism industry.
We analysed 689 encounters with at least 142 individual sharks during 2008–2010 to …

Behavioural ecology of whale sharks is very incompletely known. Recent rapid development
of whale shark-based ecotourism at several widespread localities risks deleterious impacts …

Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) tourism is increasingly popular at predictable aggregations
around the world, but only a few use provisioning to ensure close interactions …

The attraction or provisioning of sharks for the purpose of tourism is a lucrative and popular
industry that remains controversial regarding its possible risks to target species and impacts …

Shark-based tourism that uses bait to reliably attract certain species to specific sites so that
divers can view them is a growing industry globally, but remains a controversial issue. We …

Ecotourism operations which provide food to large predators have the potential to negatively
affect their target species, by conditioning them to associate humans with food, or by …

Sharks are often regarded as opportunistic asynchronous predators that feed on the most
abundant prey. In the present study, 2 populations of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion …

Coastal habitat use and residency of a coastal bay by juvenile Atlantic sharpnose sharks,
Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, were examined by acoustic monitoring, gillnet sampling, and …

Despite rapid growth in the marine tourism sector, the impacts of recreation on the marine
environment are generally not well understood. Most existing studies of marine recreation …